An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin involving the %u username replacement functionality of the SaveDir and UploadDir features. When the username substitution is configured, a specially-crafted user name can be used to circumvent restrictions to traverse the file system. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.8), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.17) are affected.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-626-1 phpmyadmin security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1415-1 phpmyadmin security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-7528 An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin involving the %u username replacement functionality of the SaveDir and UploadDir features. When the username substitution is configured, a specially-crafted user name can be used to circumvent restrictions to traverse the file system. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.8), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.17) are affected.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T01:36:28.942Z

Reserved: 2016-08-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-6614

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-12-11T02:59:20.970

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-6614

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